We are researching the Orphan Asylum's moving from Prince Street to 5th Avenue to Kingsbridge because we want to prove that these moves are needed in shaping the future of the institution and how the change would allow it to better serve the needs of the kids. In order to understand how the moves of the Orphan Asylum's shaped the future of the institution and how the change allowed it to better serve the needs of the kids we had to do research in order to get where we want to get. The first Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum was a small wooden building in Prince street. The building intended to hold about 250 children but in 1846 there were 268 children and in the following they had 280. In the year 1849 they had 317 children and in 1850 they had 327. They started to hold a column calling in which they talked about that the interest and prospective of the institution. The Board of Managers represented the case of the crowded asylum three to four years ago. This situation was represented to the city authorities in which they asked for some of the unoccupied land in the upper part of the city. They asked for some land because they wanted to construct suitable buildings for better adaptation of the children under their care.
In July,1846, the Common Council granted to give the institution the block of ground that extended from 4th to 5th Avenue and from 51st to 52nd street. Common Council did grant it but the grant came with some conditions. One important condition required construction on the land. Three years from the day of the grant passed by and the Mayor needed to approve the plan. Two years of the period expired without the adaptation of any measure for the effect of the condition. One year remained which was the most timely and energetic measures to discharge the condition.
On October 1, 1851, the boy's asylum was opened with Mother Elizabeth Boyle in charge. Within two years Mother Jerome staffed the new asylum with fifteen sisters. No one provided transportation for Mother Elizabeth's two hundred orphans they walked from Prince Street to their new home on Fifth Avenue and Fifty-First Street. The sisters did so much to make the boys feel comfortable by putting up pictures of different places and things. This would be a commonplace for Sister Martha's boys forty years later. The Fifth Avenue of 1851 had a long way before it became the urban backdrop of the Gay Nineties. Mother Elizabeth didn't feel any reason to be noticed on the avenue on that energetic October day. During that month there were more orphanages than the Boys Asylum. There was the Colored Orphan Asylum on Fifth Avenue at Forty-Fourth Street and the New York Institute of the Deaf and Dumb on the present site of the Waldorf-Astoria. Fifth Avenue began to appear on papers but mostly on the Commissioner's map. In 1854, the Perris Insurance map showed how mid-town Manhattan had expanded. The first map showed the new Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum and St. John the Evangelist Church on Fiftieth Avenue which is now known as Madison Avenue. Mother Elizabeth kept on giving her all to the orphans that she had been with for forty years. Mother Elizabeth died on June 21, 1861, the Feast of St. Aloysius and was buried on the hillside cemetery of Mount St. Vincent-on-Hudson. Sister Ann Borromeo Obermeyer replaced Mother Elizabeth in December 1846 at St. Patrick's Asylum.
The Boland Farm and Trade School.
Another important phase of the child-care program inaugurated by the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum was the Boland Farm experiment which happened in the late 1870's and 1880's along with its successor, the Boland Trade School, opened in 1849. Both of those goals were successful which was done in the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum and primarily by means of the elementary school education that laid the foundation for outstanding achievement. The Boland Farm was made by William Boland, a retired sailor, to the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum. He managed that his legacy of $50,000 should be invested until its value was $100,000. Half of the money would then be used to expand property within fifty miles of New York City. In that property they would put teenagers that have reached their age limit in the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum.
In 1870, the Board of Managers from the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum bought Sherwood Park, a tract of 242 acres near Peekskill. When they started a farmer was engaged to supervise the work and train the boys from the Fifth Avenue institution in the various branches of agriculture. In December 1872, Sister Mary Josepha Haddon, Sister Mary Thecla Garvin, and Sister Mary Sulpice Byrne were selected to take charge of the household in Boland Farm. The sisters were assigned this understanding that the Christian Brothers will soon take over the institution. Preparing for their arrival they built a large brick building inside the property. The agriculture school was cared by the Christian Brothers for twelve years. The school was closed in 1889 and the boys were moved to St. Joseph's Home in Peekskill or to the Mission of the Immaculate Virgina, Staten Island.
With $57,500 from the farm they sold, the building fund for the Boland Trade School was inaugurated. In 1894 a building was erected on property in the rear of the Fifth Avenue institution and fronting on Madison Avenue. The Boland Trade School had been successfully functioning for three years when the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum was sold to commercial interests. Before the removal of the Fifth Avenue Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum to Kingsbridge, the trade school was closed.
The Madison Avenue,Asylum.
The Common Council gave the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum the additional thirty-six lots that were promised to them in 1857 which was used to erect a girl's asylum on Madison Avenue between Fifty-first and Fifty-second Streets. There were some problems that they faced because The Journal of Commerce, New-York Express, Courier, and Daily Times made a big deal about the Common Council of New York granting the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum some land across of the Orphan Asylum near Fiftieth Street to the managers of the institution. When the land was granted in 1846, the City Corporation was not sure that the Asylum Society would be able to take care of a lot orphans. The city therefore gave them thirty-six lots for the Asylum and the use of will of thirty-six lots. So when they needed those thirty-six lots they would give it to them.
In the year 1853, plans of building the girls' asylum on that property was thought about. It was going to be extended from Fifty-First to Fifty-Second Street. Probably because a lot of funds were being made the building wasn't materialized until 1868. The Board of Managers bad agreed to authorize competent architects to submit plans, so in 1863 the Common Council granted $50,000 towards the making of the building on conditions that the sum of $75,000 be raised by private contributions.
The first part of the building was built in 1868 which was the north wing and the central section was built two years later. In the late 1876 there were still 218 girls in the Prince Street Asylum. The last eighty-five were transferred to the Madison Avenue institution in the late 1886, when the south wing was built and ready for occupations.
The first Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum was a small wooden building in Prince street. The building intended to hold about 250 children but in 1846 there were 268 children and in the following they had 280. In the year 1849 they had 317 children and in 1850 they had 327. They started to hold a column calling in which they talked about that the interest and prospective of the institution. The Board of Managers represented the case of the crowded asylum three to four years ago. This situation was represented to the city authorities in which they asked for some of the unoccupied land in the upper part of the city. They asked for some land because they wanted to construct suitable buildings for better adaptation of the children under their care.
In July,1846, the Common Council granted to give the institution the block of ground that extended from 4th to 5th Avenue and from 51st to 52nd street. Common Council did grant it but the grant came with some conditions. One important condition required construction on the land. Three years from the day of the grant passed by and the Mayor needed to approve the plan. Two years of the period expired without the adaptation of any measure for the effect of the condition. One year remained which was the most timely and energetic measures to discharge the condition.
On October 1, 1851, the boy's asylum was opened with Mother Elizabeth Boyle in charge. Within two years Mother Jerome staffed the new asylum with fifteen sisters. No one provided transportation for Mother Elizabeth's two hundred orphans they walked from Prince Street to their new home on Fifth Avenue and Fifty-First Street. The sisters did so much to make the boys feel comfortable by putting up pictures of different places and things. This would be a commonplace for Sister Martha's boys forty years later. The Fifth Avenue of 1851 had a long way before it became the urban backdrop of the Gay Nineties. Mother Elizabeth didn't feel any reason to be noticed on the avenue on that energetic October day. During that month there were more orphanages than the Boys Asylum. There was the Colored Orphan Asylum on Fifth Avenue at Forty-Fourth Street and the New York Institute of the Deaf and Dumb on the present site of the Waldorf-Astoria. Fifth Avenue began to appear on papers but mostly on the Commissioner's map. In 1854, the Perris Insurance map showed how mid-town Manhattan had expanded. The first map showed the new Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum and St. John the Evangelist Church on Fiftieth Avenue which is now known as Madison Avenue. Mother Elizabeth kept on giving her all to the orphans that she had been with for forty years. Mother Elizabeth died on June 21, 1861, the Feast of St. Aloysius and was buried on the hillside cemetery of Mount St. Vincent-on-Hudson. Sister Ann Borromeo Obermeyer replaced Mother Elizabeth in December 1846 at St. Patrick's Asylum.
The Boland Farm and Trade School.
Another important phase of the child-care program inaugurated by the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum was the Boland Farm experiment which happened in the late 1870's and 1880's along with its successor, the Boland Trade School, opened in 1849. Both of those goals were successful which was done in the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum and primarily by means of the elementary school education that laid the foundation for outstanding achievement. The Boland Farm was made by William Boland, a retired sailor, to the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum. He managed that his legacy of $50,000 should be invested until its value was $100,000. Half of the money would then be used to expand property within fifty miles of New York City. In that property they would put teenagers that have reached their age limit in the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum.
In 1870, the Board of Managers from the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum bought Sherwood Park, a tract of 242 acres near Peekskill. When they started a farmer was engaged to supervise the work and train the boys from the Fifth Avenue institution in the various branches of agriculture. In December 1872, Sister Mary Josepha Haddon, Sister Mary Thecla Garvin, and Sister Mary Sulpice Byrne were selected to take charge of the household in Boland Farm. The sisters were assigned this understanding that the Christian Brothers will soon take over the institution. Preparing for their arrival they built a large brick building inside the property. The agriculture school was cared by the Christian Brothers for twelve years. The school was closed in 1889 and the boys were moved to St. Joseph's Home in Peekskill or to the Mission of the Immaculate Virgina, Staten Island.
With $57,500 from the farm they sold, the building fund for the Boland Trade School was inaugurated. In 1894 a building was erected on property in the rear of the Fifth Avenue institution and fronting on Madison Avenue. The Boland Trade School had been successfully functioning for three years when the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum was sold to commercial interests. Before the removal of the Fifth Avenue Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum to Kingsbridge, the trade school was closed.
The Madison Avenue,Asylum.
The Common Council gave the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum the additional thirty-six lots that were promised to them in 1857 which was used to erect a girl's asylum on Madison Avenue between Fifty-first and Fifty-second Streets. There were some problems that they faced because The Journal of Commerce, New-York Express, Courier, and Daily Times made a big deal about the Common Council of New York granting the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum some land across of the Orphan Asylum near Fiftieth Street to the managers of the institution. When the land was granted in 1846, the City Corporation was not sure that the Asylum Society would be able to take care of a lot orphans. The city therefore gave them thirty-six lots for the Asylum and the use of will of thirty-six lots. So when they needed those thirty-six lots they would give it to them.
In the year 1853, plans of building the girls' asylum on that property was thought about. It was going to be extended from Fifty-First to Fifty-Second Street. Probably because a lot of funds were being made the building wasn't materialized until 1868. The Board of Managers bad agreed to authorize competent architects to submit plans, so in 1863 the Common Council granted $50,000 towards the making of the building on conditions that the sum of $75,000 be raised by private contributions.
The first part of the building was built in 1868 which was the north wing and the central section was built two years later. In the late 1876 there were still 218 girls in the Prince Street Asylum. The last eighty-five were transferred to the Madison Avenue institution in the late 1886, when the south wing was built and ready for occupations.